Case Study: The S Klallam Tribe

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4) What is the total population of your reservation?

a) The on-reservation population?
Until 2012, the tribe had 594 enrolled citizens.

b) Off-reservation population?
There is no statistics about the off-reservation population.

c) What is the tribal composition?

i) Is your reservation confederated? Explain.
The S'Klallam Tribe has divided into three divisions and one of them is the Jamestown Tribe, and the other two are the Lower Elwha Reservation and the Port Gamble Reservation. A reservation was established at Skokomish, however the Tribes did not have a friendly relationship. Their relationship remained after the signing of the Treaty of Point No Point in 1855, which was established for the purpose of unifying management of the Indian fisheries resources within that the Point No Point Treaty area.
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Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe has evolved directly from several constituent communities of the S'Klallam Tribe. The S'Klallam Tribe (meaning "strong people"), a Salish cultural and linguistic group were mostly related to the Sook and other Tribes of British Columbia, but also related to most of the Tribes of the Puget Sound

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